Seriously, though, it's time to move back to the open web again. The writing was on the wall a decade or more ago. And yet, here we are, all still trapped in Meta's data-prison. Unless the AI banned us from the platform for no reason, of course, then we don't even have access to our friends to tell them we left!

Come on, try Friendica. Or Mastodon's fine too, but *I'm* on Friendica, so clearly that's where it's at...

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Why Are We Still on Facebook?

What makes the social network thrive? Not our desire to connect with others but our desire to do so publicly.

^{Maria Konnikova (The New Yorker)}